The poor are struggling to live

Dillon 2022-04-21 09:03:04

All living beings are suffering, all living beings are suffering, all living beings are suffering.

I can't think of any other words to describe the feeling of watching this movie.


For ordinary people, ordinary families, what is life?

Before thinking about this question, I asked myself how to define "ordinary".

Eat well, clothe yourself, work from nine to five, are you considered an ordinary person?

Two bedrooms and one living room, with harmonious parents, is it an ordinary family?

That alone is enough to confuse me.

If this is the standard, I think, I am probably an ordinary person, and my family is probably not even an ordinary family.

Why is our home, and even life, always more and more unfortunate.

Because of poverty, because of busyness, because of tiredness, because of involuntary, because of helplessness?

Everyone must have a different opinion.

But at least, most of what I have seen, heard, experienced, etc. are mostly because of this.


There are so many things in this world that can kill people, and poverty is definitely one of them.

I can understand this father’s state of mind too well. My father once called me and he was thinking to himself that he would get the platform reward by making two more orders today, and it would be in a few months. After paying off the car loan, the house price in my hometown has risen to several thousand...

I listened in disbelief, and responded impatiently.

Until I saw this dialogue between Ricky and his wife, I began to constantly substitute and reflect, and reflect and substitute.

So, could it be that those words were not for me at all, but what he said to himself?

Reflect on yourself while blaming yourself, and reflect on yourself while blaming yourself.

I don't know if many fathers "have no choice" like Ricky, but many fathers should have "no choice" when it comes to money.


For mothers, what is their role in the family?

Ricky's wife, Abby, is a standard "victim."

In order to allow her husband to deliver, she sold the car necessary for her work, but in exchange she was exhausted.

I have always been selfishly opposed to anyone making fearless sacrifices and sacrifices for anyone. In addition, I have natural pity for mothers, which always magnifies their sense of sacrifice, so almost all the scenes about mothers in film and television works will be touched. my tears.

If it is said that the father is "no choice", then the mother has an extra point of "no choice" on top of this.

Mothers are more aware of the neglect and guilt of their children. I would like to believe that there are subtexts in every word of mothers:

"I sometimes have nightmares and get stuck in quicksand" = "I often feel like I'm about to be knocked down by life"

"The children pulled me out with a branch" = "The children said they wanted me to spend more time with them"

"It feels like the harder we work, the longer we work" = "We want to make more money, but we're going to miss out on more time for our kids to grow up"

"Instead, the more you get stuck in that bunker" = "the more I'm sorry for them"


Money can improve life, money can eliminate troubles, money ≈ everything.

Most people are busy with money, being poor and busy at the same time, becoming "busy poor people".

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Extended Reading
  • Mandy 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    It's still Ken Lodge, no worse than the Palme d'Or, and the level is always stable. A very miserable family. Time is spent showing the details of the couple's daily life. They live very hard, but they are still repeatedly attacked. Looking at such a family, we should think about it.

  • Kamille 2022-03-28 09:01:10

    Kenloch's three hundred and sixty lines this time it's the courier's turn. I've been crying in the second half, it's too hard, life is too hard, this is a country where the Sex Pistols were born, who doesn't want to be a punk and fuck this world, but Kenloch's filming has no way out To resist, the fists swept out can only hit the air forever. What is the use of resisting, what is resisting, no one knows, the smoldering nameless anger is corrupted into despair. But even though it's a bitter drama, it shouldn't be aimed at torturing the protagonist. It's enough to run away from home. The ending is too much. After reading it, I don't scold Holland Express again, but I somehow feel that the situation in China will actually be worse. China needs a Kenlodge too much.

Sorry We Missed You quotes

  • Abbie Turner: This is my family, and I'm telling you now, nobody messes with my family.

  • Ricky: I don't know what's got into you, I really don't. You're a smart kid just like Liza. You used to be in all the top sets. What is going on? Just give yourself some choices mate.

    Abbie Turner: Seb?

    Seb: Hmm-mm?

    Abbie Turner: We've talked about this. You could go to uni.

    Seb: Go to uni? What, and be like Harpoon's brother? £57 grand in debt and what? Working in a call centre now, getting smashed every weekend just to forget his problems. Of course.

    Ricky: Yeah, but it doesn't have to be like that does it? There's some good jobs out there.

    Seb: Good jobs? What good jobs?

    Ricky: Well there is if you just knuckle down. Give yourself some options. Otherwise you're just going to end up like...

    Seb: What, like you?

    Ricky: Oh fucking nice!

    Abbie Turner: Seb...

    Seb: Do you really think I want that? Really?

    Ricky: Yeah...

    Seb: Well yeah of course I do don't I? I want to be like you.

    Ricky: Yeah, going from shit job to shit job, working 14 hours a day, having to put up with everyone else's shit. Going from one shit job to another shit job. You're just going to end up a skivvy.

    Seb: A skivvy? It's your choice to be a skivvy isn't it? A skivvy doesn't come to, you, you go to it - right?

    Ricky: I'm doing my best Seb.

    Seb: Maybe your best isn't good enough, is it?